I've interned for 3 different firms, been part of my school's Pre-law club (one of the presidents this last year), majored in Finance w/ a minor in logic. I recently got back from a 2 year service mission to Taiwan for my church (LDS, all work-no "fun and games")and speak fluent Mandarin. I'm about to finish up my last year of school. What would you say my chances of Cornell are?

I got in 168, 3.9. I would be surprised if you didn't. Apply early so that you fall under the Early Action non-binding category and you should be good. Wait longer and you will be bunched up with a lot of other people and will thus have more of a chance of being waitlisted.

Chucky, when I apply I'm gonna make sure I fall into the EA category, so hopefully that will play to my advantage.

As for aiming higher, I'm applying to Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, U of Chicago, and NYU. I would love to attend Harvard or Stanford, but I'm afraid it will be mainly chance if I get in. Also, I don't have any ties to either program (I'm actually the first person in my family on BOTH SIDES to go to any schooling after highschool..). I've looked into all of the aforementioned schools, and I'm open to all of them.

As for the logic minor, it requires several classes on deductive logic, predicate logic, and metalogic. We dwelt a lot on the history and use of predicate logic, evaluation of arguments with counterexamples and proofs, informal mathematical proofs, and the incompleteness of arithmetic and set theory.

My apologies for getting back to this thread so late, I've been swamped

Klz112 wrote:Chucky, when I apply I'm gonna make sure I fall into the EA category, so hopefully that will play to my advantage.

As for aiming higher, I'm applying to Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, U of Chicago, and NYU. I would love to attend Harvard or Stanford, but I'm afraid it will be mainly chance if I get in. Also, I don't have any ties to either program (I'm actually the first person in my family on BOTH SIDES to go to any schooling after highschool..). I've looked into all of the aforementioned schools, and I'm open to all of them.

As for the logic minor, it requires several classes on deductive logic, predicate logic, and metalogic. We dwelt a lot on the history and use of predicate logic, evaluation of arguments with counterexamples and proofs, informal mathematical proofs, and the incompleteness of arithmetic and set theory.

My apologies for getting back to this thread so late, I've been swamped

Unless you are a URM you have almost no chance at any of those schools you just named. When people told you to aim higher, they didn't mean quite that high.

Klz112 wrote:Chucky, when I apply I'm gonna make sure I fall into the EA category, so hopefully that will play to my advantage.

As for aiming higher, I'm applying to Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, U of Chicago, and NYU. I would love to attend Harvard or Stanford, but I'm afraid it will be mainly chance if I get in. Also, I don't have any ties to either program (I'm actually the first person in my family on BOTH SIDES to go to any schooling after highschool..). I've looked into all of the aforementioned schools, and I'm open to all of them.

As for the logic minor, it requires several classes on deductive logic, predicate logic, and metalogic. We dwelt a lot on the history and use of predicate logic, evaluation of arguments with counterexamples and proofs, informal mathematical proofs, and the incompleteness of arithmetic and set theory.

My apologies for getting back to this thread so late, I've been swamped

Unless you are a URM you have almost no chance at any of those schools you just named. When people told you to aim higher, they didn't mean quite that high.

Klz112 wrote:Chucky, when I apply I'm gonna make sure I fall into the EA category, so hopefully that will play to my advantage.

As for aiming higher, I'm applying to Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, U of Chicago, and NYU. I would love to attend Harvard or Stanford, but I'm afraid it will be mainly chance if I get in. Also, I don't have any ties to either program (I'm actually the first person in my family on BOTH SIDES to go to any schooling after highschool..). I've looked into all of the aforementioned schools, and I'm open to all of them.

As for the logic minor, it requires several classes on deductive logic, predicate logic, and metalogic. We dwelt a lot on the history and use of predicate logic, evaluation of arguments with counterexamples and proofs, informal mathematical proofs, and the incompleteness of arithmetic and set theory.

My apologies for getting back to this thread so late, I've been swamped

Unless you are a URM you have almost no chance at any of those schools you just named. When people told you to aim higher, they didn't mean quite that high.

Don't apply to any of the T6. Waste of money.

Although it does sound like OP may be a URM (first generation student?) so they might be able to snag NYU, if you check out LSN. But even that's a long shot. Obviously, if not a URM those apps are entirely a waste of time and money.

You seem to have pretty good extra curriculars so if there is a data point where one of the candidates got accepted and one rejected you might be more likely to be accepted, but honestly you shouldn't expect anything out of the ordinary from what your numbers will dictate.

If you're applying next year, I would retake. 169 is a great score, but 170+ is magical. An extra 3 points and you'd have a decent shot at Columbia.

I'm not one to say automatically "wait another year until you're scores are better and reapply"- time is a valuable thing- but if you're already waiting, it would be silly not to. Every point is thousands of dollars in scholarship money, not to mention better schools.

piscola wrote:If you're applying next year, I would retake. 169 is a great score, but 170+ is magical. An extra 3 points and you'd have a decent shot at Columbia.

I'm not one to say automatically "wait another year until you're scores are better and reapply"- time is a valuable thing- but if you're already waiting, it would be silly not to. Every point is thousands of dollars in scholarship money, not to mention better schools.

I've been considering doing this, I'll make sure to keep this in mind. Thanks